General George S. Patton

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Regarded as one of the most successful commanders of all time, Patton chased Pancho Villa in 1916, received the Distinguished Service Award and a Purple Heart during World War I and commanded the U.S. Third Army during WWII. In the end, a Cadillac did to Patton what entire armies failed to do. On December 9, 1945, the Cadillac that Patton was a passenger in collided with a truck in Germany. While the impact was minor, the 60-year-old general had hit his head on the metal partition between the front and back seats. Patton was rushed to a hospital but ended up dying of an embolism on December 21, 1945.